From EastSouthWestNorth: As a blogger, I do not write about every subject under the sun. For one thing, I am an individual who has only a finite number of hours per day. More importantly, as an avid blog reader, I am clearly aware of the fact that you don’t need to me to repeat the […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: China’s national economy has been running ahead steadily with sound industrial operation over the first half of 2005. The information made available by the National Development and Reform Commission has disclosed new characteristics and problems in the industrial operation. The changes and outlook of enterprises’ economic performance in particular, among […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: About 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens with one government official calling the situation “anarchy.” The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 450 miles northeast of Beijing, was one of […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China will use its veto to stop the United Nations Security Council from criticising Zimbabwe’s slum clearance, President Robert Mugabe says. The UK and the US have asked the Security Council to discuss the demolitions, after a UN report said 700,000 had been made homeless. Mr Mugabe is on a week-long visit […]
Read MoreFrom CNN: BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Tattoos of mermaids and roses, cherubs bearing crimson hearts, Lenin’s head and the trademarked pattern of French luxury brand Louis Vuitton stand out against bright pink skin soaking in the sun outside Beijing. This living gallery of skin art is not on display for a tattooists’ convention or a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens, sources said on Wednesday. The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 725 km (450 miles) northeast of Beijing, was one of a […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via OptusNet: As of noon on Tuesday, Sichuan reported 117 people had been stricken with the disease, of which 76 cases have been confirmed. Only five patients have recovered and left hospital so far. The disease, caused by the streptococcus suis bacteria, which is spread among pigs, has proved so deadly that about […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Novels are routinely adapted for the screen. What is rare is for a best-selling writer to direct the movie version of his own book. Dai Sijie’s experience, though, was still more unusual. He was a filmmaker who turned to fiction because his movie career was faltering. Now the worldwide success […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: It is entirely coincidental that Robert Mugabe‘s six-day feting in China began on the weekend hard on the heels of a United Nations report harshly — and quite rightly — condemning his odious regime. The report deplored the mass, indiscriminate destruction of urban slums and shantytowns in Zimbabwe, leaving 700,000 […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: China’s central bank said it won’t revalue the yuan again in the “foreseeable future,” dismissing speculation that last week’s appreciation is the first of many. Chinese companies need time to adjust to the 2.1 percent revaluation of July 21, the People’s Bank of China said, adding that the shift will help curb the […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: From the distance the turbines look almost forbidding, looming very large on the horizon like some clawed space invaders. But one must get up close, very close, to hear the slightest hum as their blades spin, harvesting power from the wind. Apart from the […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Wal-Mart revealed its ambitious expansion plans to Chinese journalists on July 25, just four days after the People’s Bank of China decided to abandon the yuan’s decade-old peg to the dollar. The move will lift the Chinese currency’s value by 2.1% initially — and perhaps by much more over the long term. […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): China’s revaluation of its currency last week may roil the economies of its Asian neighbors in the short term but could be a boon for the region in the long run. Analysts say China’s move toward a market-based currency system may stimulate trade and consumer demand in […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: With the fourth round of six-party talks finally under way in Beijing after 13 months of hiatus, commentators are attributing their resumption to the intensive diplomatic maneuvering in the past few weeks in which Washington recognized North Korea as a sovereign country, Seoul offered supplies of electricity to the North should nuclear […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s Ministry of Health has blamed a pig bacteria for a mysterious disease that has killed 19 people in a southwest province and made 61 ill, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. Laboratory tests showed the affected people were suffering from streptococcus suis infections contracted from the slaughtering or handling of infected pigs, […]
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